MIPCOM to Host Gaming Summit

PARIS: On October 5, MIPCOM is to present the first Games2TV2Games summit, a new global stage for buying, licensing, creating and commissioning online games.

The Games2TV2Games summit gathers key games industry players and online game  buyers from the world’s leading media networks, including  online publishers, TV channels, producers and network operators from mobile, Internet, cable, satellite and social media. The full-day conference will include screenings of online and virtual games and a multiplayer networking lunch, which will be attended by executives from companies such as Aardman, the BBC, Channel 4, Endemol, MTV, RTL  Group, SevenOne International and game companies like Bigpoint , Playfish, Slingo, Gravity and Gamigo.

“MIPCOM’s games initiative is  particularly opportune given the growing creative and business  synergies between interactive entertainment and the TV industry,” said Fred Hasson, the chair of online at the European Game Developers Association and executive director of RedBedlam, one of the summit’s supporting partners. 

MIP Junior conferences will also focus on gaming, with a special session entitled “Online gaming & new digital  streams,” featuring companies such as dpals.com, Tribal Nova,  Turner Broadcasting, Digital Outlook and Walt Disney Internet Group. On the exhibition floor, online games  will be showcased inside MIPCOM’s I-ZONE digital media exhibition space.